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Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter

The major recontextualisation of the writings of Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter required, in the first place, the collection and transcription of a considerable body of manuscript letters housed in private and public repositories in England and America, including the incorrectly catalogued Thomas Birch archive. Further archival research was then undertaken to generate a further 6000 words on the authors’ other literary productions, mostly available only in original 17C and 18C editions, and the 7000-word introduction that contextualises the findings in relation to current and past scholarship on women’s literary history, manuscript history, and the republic of letters.